Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both began showing signs of nervousness as the jury stayed out, hour after hour. And when the court finally read the verdict, Joe Fay and James Bove looked pale and sick. The verdict: guilty of extortion and conspiracy; maximum possible penalty: 18 years in prison...
...partner listened dejectedly as their lawyers filed notice of appeal, then went off to jail, where they glumly ate their first prison meal - lamb stew and cabbage salad...
...farmhouse near the sponge-fishing port of Batabanó. Under a heap of palm leaves, in slacks and sport shirt, they found quaking ex-Colonel José Pedraza, their former Chief of Staff, until recently in exile. They took him and five civilians caught with him to the military prison in ancient Cabanas Fortress across the harbor from Havana. So ended last week a revolution that never took place...
...camp Nazis tried to censor books in the prison libraries. They put books they did not want their prison mates to read on separate shelves and passed the word that these shelves were verboten. Army officials soon put a stop to that. But positive Nazi propaganda is hard to curb. Because of the scarcity of German-speaking guards, the Nazis can proselyte openly. In one so-called art class, conducted by a Nazi, students diligently repeated lessons right out of the Nazi book: the statue of a racially impure woman is unschön (ugly); art should be Zweck-Kunst...
...precinct." But to Reporter White's Kansan eyes all these familiar people seemed to be living in "a moderately well run penitentiary, which kept [them] working hard and provided a bunk to sleep in, three daily meals and enough clothes to keep [them] warm." It was a prison whose "walls were covered with posters explaining that freedom and justice could only be found within its bars, that outside was only disorder, strikes, uncertainty, unemployment, and exploitation. . . ." It differed from the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing only in that "a talented inmate can work himself up to be warden, which...